RACE DAY AERIALS FOR CAR & KART EVENTS
The FPV chase cam is the signature look of modern drift media — a quad hand-flown through the smoke, feet off the door. We fly that format for event organizers, with a live feed into the stream you already run.
01 — WHERE THE COVERAGE FITS
Drift is where FPV belongs: speeds through a section suit a chase quad, runs are short and repeatable, and the smoke-and-angle shot is the one your audience already expects. Tandem battles, chased door to door.
Corner complexes, esses and infield sections covered from the air, plus elevated laps of the full circuit for context. Great for organizer media, driver-content add-ons and live streams.
Kart speeds sit inside a 5″ quad's envelope nearly everywhere on the circuit — full-field chase coverage, whole races, the same way we cover a moto.
Flyovers of the paddock and show field, roll-in coverage, and vertical cutdowns your event can post the same day.
02 — THE HONEST PART
A straight answer beats a missed shot. Here's exactly where a chase quad works on a car circuit — and where it doesn't.
A race car at the end of a straight outruns a 5″ quad. Anyone who promises a full-lap tail chase on a fast road course is selling you a shot they can't hold.
Braking zones, corner complexes and drift sections are flown as locked chases — the aircraft stays with the car exactly where the driving is worth watching, then hands off to the next covered section or an elevated hold.
Between chase segments the aircraft holds an elevated wide of the circuit, so your stream always has an aerial to cut to. Live into your switcher as HDMI, SDI, NDI or RTMP — plus raw 4K and vertical cutdowns delivered the same day.
03 — PROOF, HONESTLY LABELED
Straight answer: our race résumé so far is motocross — a full season as the official aerial crew for a live broadcast series, hand-flying chase quads over real races. Every reel on this site was shot over moto and is labeled that way. The transferable part is the craft: holding a hand-flown chase on a fast, moving machine, live, inside a running event's safety rules. When we fly a car event, that footage takes over this page.
WATCH THE CHASE REELS →04 — BEFORE YOU BOOK
Not yet — and we'd rather say so than fake it. Our race coverage to date is motocross, including a season of live broadcast work with the drone feed cut into the stream. The chase craft, the live pipeline and the safety process all transfer; the reels are there to be judged.
Through corners, drift sections and anywhere a kart goes — yes. Down a long straight on a fast road course — no, and we won't pretend otherwise. Coverage is planned section by section: locked chase where speeds suit the aircraft, elevated wides everywhere else, so your stream always has an angle.
We carry commercial drone liability and hull coverage and issue a COI naming your organization or facility as additional insured for every booking. Motorsports facilities sometimes require specific limits — send us your facility's requirements with your quote request and we'll confirm exactly what we can certify before you commit.
Never over spectators, paddock or hot pit. Chase lines run beside and behind cars over the circuit itself, briefed to your event control and corner workers before anything launches. If a shot can't be flown clear of people, we don't take it.
However your production takes video: clean HDMI or SDI at the booth, NDI on your network, or RTMP pushed straight to your ingest. Your overlays, your commentary — our aircraft is just another camera in your cut.
Same productized rate as every event we cover: event days from $600 for a four-hour minimum, $900 for a full 8-hour day, $1,600 for a two-day weekend. Travel free within 50 miles of our Inland Empire base, then $1.00 a mile round-trip. Full rates are here.
That's the smart order. A practice day, open drift session or track day is the cheapest way to prove the coverage on your circuit before it's on a live stream. Ask about it in your quote request.
David Escobar — FAA Part 107, every flight on this site is his. Hand-built 5″ FPV quads, GoPro-carried 4K/8K capture, DJI O3/O4 live downlink, and the feed hardware (FPVLink) built in-house.
Send your event, circuit and dates and we'll come back within 24 hours with availability, an exact quote, and an honest section-by-section answer on what the coverage looks like.
WHAT TO SEND
Or email book@racedayaerials.com — we reply within 24 hours.
